By Tim Mandell, Richmond Register Technology, especially the Internet, has made it easier to take a college class from a different campus across state or even from the comfort of one’s own home. The Distance and Online Learning program at Eastern Kentucky University continues to grow as more and more students are able to enroll in classes without having to be on campus or give up their full-time jobs. During the 2008-09 school year, more than 18,500 course enrollments through distance education at EKU, which is a 40-percent increase from the previous year, according to EKU’s website.

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Online learning popular at EKU, but some concerned about tuition hike

by Kaye Spector, The Plain Dealer A Kent State University assistant professor hopes that online courses and part-time educators can help ease the nursing shortage. There are more students who want to be nurses than there are enough qualified nursing instructors to teach them. A Kent State University nursing professor has a plan to help fix that.

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Online learning courses, part-time educators aimed at easing nursing shortage

By Laura Raines, Atlanta Journal Constitution “Online learning has come a long way,” said Jean Pickus, RN, MSN, regional director of academic affairs and program chair for nursing and health care programs at the University of Phoenix. Barry Williams, Special Sandra Scott, a nurse in the oncology unit at WellStar Cobb Hospital in Austell, is studying for her bachelor’s degree through the University of Phoenix

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The value of online learning

by Google Wave Developer blog Since the announcement that we will discontinue development of Google Wave as a standalone product, many people have asked us about the future of the open source code and Wave federation protocol. After spending some time on figuring out our next steps, we’d like to share the plan for our contributions over the coming months

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Online Learning Tool Survives: Google to Release “Google Wave in a Box”

By Alex Wilhelm, the Next Web Apple’s iPad is a monster hit, making it a product that Apple wants to ensure is as available as possible. Throughout the early days of its life, production lag and delays were the name of the iPad ordering game

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Online Learning: Apple Building 2 Million iPads Monthly

Last week, as part of the Race to the Top federal grant competition, the Education Department awarded two groups of states $330 million to develop the next generation of student assessments. The money, which will be disbursed over the next four years, goes to the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium . Together the winning groups represent 44 states; the others have declined to participate.

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The New Assessments

By Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Ed In his work as a professor, Stephen Downes used to feel that he was helping those who least needed it. His students at places like the University of Alberta already had a leg up in life and could afford the tuition. So when a colleague suggested they co-teach an online class in learning theory at the University of Manitoba, in 2008, Mr

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Online, Bigger Classes May Be Better Classes: Experimenters say diversity means richness

by Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle With the Internet emerging as the world’s largest classroom, debate over the value of an online university education has never run hotter. The University of California hopes to develop a top-tier cyber bachelor’s degree program, while some faculty worry that doing that would diminish UC’s quality.

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Student chooses online learning for college classes

When thinking about college, everyone starts to contemplate what they will major in. But there is an even more important decision to make than choosing a major: choosing a career.

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By Elaine Wilson, infoZine -The Defense Department’s newest high school is devoid of walls or windows, but yet has opened its “doors” this year to students scattered around the globe. The Department of Defense Education Activity’s virtual high school is an accredited distance-learning program for military students, whether they’re geographically separated, transitioning between schools or just dealing with a scheduling conflict. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to close gaps and enhance students’ educational experience in a 21st century environment,” Marilee Fitzgerald, the activity’s acting director, said

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Many times, students and parents just “let the college decision happen”. They automatically assume that once they make the decision to attend, they will be able to get in somewhere, even if it’s a local community college. You should take charge of your college search and make it your “job” to find a place where you can get a college education that is worth the money

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3 Ways to Take Charge of Your College Search

Advances in technology open the door to myriad new ways of delivering and personalizing education. The recently launched Digital Learning Council and other groups are working to translate powerful ideas about technology and education to powerful results in the classroom. A minority of schools, such as School of One , are already taking advantage of technology to provide innovative instruction models

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Closing The Digital Gap

Why Tech Hasn’t Helped (Yet) As someone who came to education after ten years in the tech world, I am an ardent user of and cheerleader for technology in life. But after fifteen years working in schools, and reading the research literature on technology use in education, I’ve noticed several patterns that suggest that we have not yet figured out how—or even if—technology helps kids learn.

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Steve Peha responded to Closing The Digital Gap on September 2, 2010 06:32 PM

Solving the “GM Moment” in Education The growing demand for greatly improved student outcomes combined with continued budget shortfalls in most states is creating a “General Motors Moment” for education; the product was already lackluster and now there is far less revenue to continue turning out what people weren’t buying anyway. Just as General Motors has been forced to reevaluate how it does business, so must education. And if the new electrically powered Chevy Volt is the future of General Motors, technology can be the future for education.

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Gov. Bob Wise responded to Closing The Digital Gap on August 31, 2010 12:13 PM

My List I couldn’t resist weighing in this week even though I will be brief. I won’t attempt to share descriptions or commentaries on my picks given that they are likely familiar to most readers.

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Deborah A. Gist responded to Summer Reading on August 27, 2010 10:53 PM

An Equity Must-Read: How It’s Being Done It would be hard to say I’m unbiased in recommending a book by veteran education journalist and Ed Trust senior writer Karin Chenoweth. But How It’s Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools is a must-read for everyone committed to the goal of education equity. It provides valuable insight into the impressive achievements of eight high-minority and high-poverty schools from various settings across the country—schools that defy the ill-conceived notion that achievement gaps are inevitable

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Kati Haycock responded to Summer Reading on August 23, 2010 03:22 PM

The Courage to Read This Book I just finished my annual re-reading of Parker Palmer’s “The Courage to Teach.” Published in 1997, the book successfully predicted the most gut-wrenching aspect of education reform: teachers and their practice struggling against the effects of government policies. But Palmer did more than identify the problem, he proposed a solution for teachers (one that I don’t think anyone else has proposed), a solution that, if teachers took it seriously, would shake reform to its core.

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Steve Peha responded to Summer Reading on August 23, 2010 12:28 PM

Non-Work Related Books I generally try to take a break from just work-related education reading in the summer. In addition to catching up on old magazines that pile up, here are the non-work related books I read, followed by a couple of edubooks I did, too

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Andrew J. Rotherham responded to Summer Reading on August 19, 2010 10:55 AM

How It’s Being Done We’re lucky to work in a field with a lot (!) of excellent writing – statistical analyses, political recaps, opinionated blogs, inspiring start-up stories, and an endless Tweet-stream.

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Ellen Winn responded to Summer Reading on August 18, 2010 04:45 PM

Hybrid learning books & clicks A recent post on the Education Next blog by Paul E. Peterson caught my eye: “Will we have the best courses online in five years?” Peterson muses on the prediction, made a few years ago by Clay Christensen and Michael Horn in their must-read Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns), that half of all high school courses will be taken online by 2019

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Deborah McGriff responded to Summer Reading on August 18, 2010 02:03 PM